Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women originally filed their complaints separately, but last month the three consolidated their complaints, stating that "the disparate treatment each has confronted reflects a broader pattern and practice of race discrimination in the City's management of its own workforce...
...city--affectionately dubbed the "People's Republic of Cambridge" by residents proud of their progressive politics--may seem an unlikely breeding ground for municipal discrimination. Zucker, however, suggests that the city's liberal image may have allowed a pattern of racism to go undetected...
...substance of last month's consolidated complaint is an alleged pattern of long-term workplace discrimination including imposing standards not imposed on white colleagues and denials of the autonomy, support and respect necessary to fulfill their positions...
...That pattern left the impression that the American people treat constitutional matters as more sacred than the leaders to whom they are entrusted, and the debate on Thursday sealed it. The mood was grim and rash and deeply bitter. When House minority leader Richard Gephardt mentioned on the floor the Republican lust to poke their investigative Q-Tips into the cracks of everything from campaign finance to Travelgate to the FBI files, many Republicans forgot their instructions to be dignified and cheered, yelped "Yes!" and applauded. And when Gephardt later said, in true sorrow, that "our problem...
...that unless specific action is taken, four to seven people tend to dominate any group," she says. "In a coed class, more of the attention getters may be boys, but a lot of boys, as well as girls, are left out. A single-sex class does not change the pattern--only deliberate inclusiveness works for everyone...